Mother counts: How effects of environmental contaminants on maternal care could affect the offspring and future generations

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 440-451

  Cummings, J A ^a   Clemens, L G ^b   Nunez, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; DNA methylation; Endocrine disruptors; Environmental contaminants; Epigenetic effects; Maternal behavior; Pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

3,3',4,4' TETRACHLOROBIPHENYL; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; DIOXIN; DNA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; HERBICIDE; HISTONE; METHOXYCHLOR; PESTICIDE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FETOTOXICITY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS;

EID: 77958195718     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2010.05.004     Document Type: Review

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